Number Of Credentials Research Articles

Enhancing eID card mobile-based authentication through 3D facial reconstruction

Enhancing eID card mobile-based authentication through 3D facial reconstruction

Dentist's Destiny in Disquieting Oral Cancers: An Indian Scenario

Oral cancer is a foremost problem in India where it ranks among the top three types of cancer in the country and is considered an epidemic in recent centuries. Oral cancer is the second most common group of malignancies in males and ranks in the fourth position in females in India. Oral cancers are usually preceded by clinically evident potentially malignant disorders, which can be recognized through oral screening. Early diagnosis and proper management can avert the cancerous potential of the lesion. Although oral cancer rates are alarming, existing situation of dentist in India is devastating. A number of credentials are available in medical literature highlighting the oral cancer rates and problems of dentists in India, but still not much critical steps are taken by the government to improve both situations. Moreover, the oral cavity can reflect and unravel many of the human body's internal ambiguity; in developing country like India, most people do not tend to set the same significance on dental health as they do on their medical health.

Evaluating the Impacts of “New” Performance Funding in Higher Education

In 2007, Washington adopted the Student Achievement Initiative, a statewide performance accountability system designed to improve retention rates and degree productivity among community colleges. Using difference-in-differences analysis, we found that the policy change has had little immediate effect on retention rates or associate’s degree productivity. However, community colleges produced more short-term certificates after the policy reform. These results are robust across many alternative comparison groups. Considering that certificates yield less value in the labor market than associate’s degrees but are easier for colleges to produce, we discuss the unintended consequences of rewarding colleges based on the number of credentials they produce.

Coaches, Arbitrators, and Access to Medical Care

A coach is a person who guides, interprets, and explains an unfamiliar social situation to a potential patient. The overall strategy of the coach is to help prepare the patient to present him/herself to the institution so that he or she will be given entree. A person may be sought as coach because he or she has illness-specific or institution-specific knowledge, or is a usual confidant. There are four types of coaches: the sidelines coach, the player-coach, the behindthe-scene coach, and the direct-line coach. Coaches may be formal or informal. The customary medical patient must establish a number of credentials in order to be considered a bona fide recipient of services: somatic, financial, social, and politicallideological. Not all institutions require all credentials, nor are they all given equal weight. The coach's functions are: to teach the patient how to present hislher credentials; to help decide which credentials are important for a particular institution; to assess the strength of the patient's credentials; to help decide whether the credentials may be successfully established. The institution responds by accepting or rejecting the credentials. Once rejected, the patient may call upon an arbitrator, who attempts to establish a credential consensus by forcing a reassessment of the credentials or a waiver of the credentialing process. Arbitrators may be formal or informal, but must have some basis of authority in order to be effective. Tactics used by arbitrators are: bargaining, plea of dire consequences, and appeal to higher authority. Coaches and arbitrators may be used sequentially or simultaneously, or they may serve in a combined capacity.